Call me a fanboy if you want, but I just came out of the movie theater feeling that Ratatouille is the best animated movie ever made, and one of the best movies of any kind in many years. Script, characters, visual design, animation, rendering technology, pacing, humour… I absolutely loved all of it. I spent the entire movie with an unmistakable feeling of pure joy in my chest.

It does many things against what we may consider "mainstream business sense", from the rat theme, to the french accents and the adult themes in an animated movie… and it’s probably going to pay for it with a less than stellar box office. But god bless Brad Bird and Pixar for taking the risk and giving us such a masterpiece.